Usually means: Rise to power or dominance.
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  1. ascendancy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ascendancy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ascendancy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ascendancy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ascendancy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ascendancy, ascendancy: Wordnik
  7. ascendancy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ascendancy: Wiktionary
  9. ascendancy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ascendancy (ascendency): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ascendancy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ascendancy, ascendancy: Dictionary.com
  13. Ascendancy (album), Ascendancy (computer game), Ascendancy (disambiguation), Ascendancy (film), Ascendancy (video game), Ascendancy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Ascendancy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. ascendancy: Rhymezone
  16. Ascendancy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ascendancy: Free Dictionary
  18. ascendancy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. ascendancy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. ascendancy: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. ascendancy: Legal dictionary

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  1. Ascendancy: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
noun:  (ecology) A quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem's trophic network, and intended to indicate its ability to prevail against disturbance by virtue of its combined organization and size.
noun:  (historical, Ireland, sometimes capitalized) Ellipsis of Protestant Ascendancy, a class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century.

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